The American artist Alexander "Sandy" Calder (1898-1976) is best known for his kinetic sculptures known as mobiles and for his monumental static pieces known as stabiles. Many a museum, including the ...

Alexander Calder, 67, loves to play with space. In the 1930s he invented the mobile, that flying trapeze of multi colored disks adangle which made sculpture fly. Now he makes stabiles, which, as the ...

How great is Calder’s genius is shown by the fact that he has had not one successful imitator or follower in the field of moving sculptures, whereas his stabiles, constellations, wire sculptures, ...

“I get ideas for them everywhere, except when driving a car. I try and think of something slithering around and the next thing I know I’m in the ditch.” Thus last week greying, hulking Alexander ...

PHILADELPHIA — It’s “not a museum,” and, according to its architects, it’s “not a building.” But this cool subterranean lair on the historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway now houses a shifting collection ...